[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/2/2022 1:32 PM, Robert Carleton wrote:
> One thing that stands out about OpenVMS is its record-oriented
> filesystem (Files-11), along with its extensive batch facilities. The
> Linux and Microsoft Windows environments don't really seem to have
> those kinds of tools as part of their baseline.

Records for sequential files is mostly a hassle from application
perspective.

But index-sequential files is a "builtin NoSQL key value store".
It is not a problem getting one of those on other platforms
(RocksDB or whatever), but VMS got it.

And batch are useful as well. There are other options - from
expensive enterprise schedulers to Quartz for the J world. But
again VMS got it.

None of this is the killer feature that will make customers
stand in line at VSI's front door, but  it is still something
that VMS has.

And I don't believe in the unique killer feature
idea at all - such get copied very quickly.

Arne